How do you get a 35' 3" roll of carpet upstairs?
And you don't have any help? With a little 'Yankee Ingenuity'...
It took about an hour to construct the ramps and supports and all of 10 minutes to get the carpet up there once I started moving it. I'm not sure what that roll weighs, but it's 423 square feet of nice thick Karastan carpet. Plenty heavy!
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No neighbor kids, period! And I like it that way! Wasn't in a hurry, other than trying to get that area done before my wife moves up here at the end of July. I'm new to the area and don't really know many folks yet, at least not well enough to have 'em over to help do something like that.
I really kind of enjoy a challenge such as this presented. I know lots of contractors that would go to their clients and inform them of a 'problem' on a job site. If I ran into something like that I never used the word 'problem'. I referred to it as 'an opportunity for a creative solution'.
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I think that’s how they built the Pyramids.
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Nice place! Good luck with your relocation.
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Lucky it didn't fall off.. take out the big screen tv
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Windows are your friends/
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well yeah, that's one way,,,,,,
smart thinkin
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"With a little 'Yankee Ingenuity'..."
Great Work-A-Round"! Down here it would be "Southern Engineering"! 😀
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GENIUS!!!! That is awesome!
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In the 5th picture you’re looking down the length of the roll at a nice big window. I would have slid the window up and come in that way straight up the stairs. It also would have been my excuse to buy a nice cable come along and attach it to the plywood floor you’re standing on as the anchor point.
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Good job
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Yeah, okay. But do you know how to copy a form of identification. You know us folks out in the sticks are stupid....
Excellent idea BTW!
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Nanuq907: 31152586862491/comments/31152622681115
In the 5th picture you’re looking down the length of the roll at a nice big window. I would have slid the window up and come in that way straight up the stairs. It also would have been my excuse to buy a nice cable come along and attach it to the plywood floor you’re standing on as the anchor point.
Thought about that. That window is still 5' below where the carpet needed to be and I still would have had to build some kind of platform to support it as it went through said window and then angled up the stairs. I also didn't want to risk scuffing up the window frame with the backing on the carpet.
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I worked hard for my money, sometimes now I let my money work for me........hired help comes to mind 😀
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The less money I spend on hired help the more money I can spend on guns and fishin' gear! Might even save up and buy a new pair of socks! If I'm feelin' real flush then mebbe some new skivvies, too!
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NeoBlackdog: 31152586862491/comments/31152611521179
The less money I spend on hired help the more money I can spend on guns and fishin' gear! Might even save up and buy a new pair of socks! If I'm feelin' real flush then mebbe some new skivvies, too!
Whoo doggy!
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You could have just cut it up into three sections and hauled them up the stairs one at a time. 😁
A simple and elegant solution. Wish I'd thought of it earlier! Then I'd only have to spend 5 hours seaming it all back up!😜
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Good work.
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I find it hard to believe that no one pointed out that it's only 12" the other way. Good job!
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That’s how the pioneers built log cabins.
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NeoBlackdog: 31152586862491/comments/31152594430491
https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11284383#Comment_11284383
Thought about that. That window is still 5' below where the carpet needed to be and I still would have had to build some kind of platform to support it as it went through said window and then angled up the stairs. I also didn't want to risk scuffing up the window frame with the backing on the carpet.
Yep that would have happened for sure. That carpet backing is rough stuff.
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Aaaw that dont look heavy, ouch, my back!
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Toolman286: 31152586862491/comments/31152596115611
I find it hard to believe that no one pointed out that it's only 12" the other way. Good job!
12 inches? Or did you mean 12 feet?
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your way sure worked and I don't know how heavy that roll is but you got it in the house , so why not just lean the roll up against the landing and push it up , might have need a push stick to help get it up all the way but seems that would have been quicker and easier
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Good job, smart engineering!
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montanajoe: 31152586862491/comments/31152593328667
well yeah, that's one way,,,,,,
smart thinkin
+1...
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I like it Steve. Smart. But I gotta chide ya for not just lugging it up those stairs. Harden up! :)
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redhawkk480: 31152586862491/comments/31152636342555
your way sure worked and I don't know how heavy that roll is but you got it in the house , so why not just lean the roll up against the landing and push it up , might have need a push stick to help get it up all the way but seems that would have been quicker and easier
Whut???????
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A trip to the nearest labor pool and you pick the two biggest amigos and pay em 50 ea for one hour
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mohawk600: 31152586862491/comments/31152640310939
https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11284440#Comment_11284440
Whut???????
he carried it into the house why not stand the darn roll upright with the top of the roll against the land and just shove it up , have a push stick close by incase he needed a little more reach
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Lol, apparently you've never carried a roll of carpet. That thing weighs 100s of lbs. Prob over 300. Carpet is HEAVY.
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